Michal Kovac

Michal Kovac (5 August 1930-5 October 2016) was President of Slovakia from 2 March 1993 to 2 March 1998, preceding Rudolf Schuster.

Biography
Michal Kovac was born on 5 August 1930 in Lubisa, Czechoslovakia, and he graduated from the University of Economics at Bratislava and became a member of the Czechoslovak State Bank. He spent some years in England and Cuba during the 1960s, and he served as Finance Minister of Slovakia in the late 1980s. In 1992, he served as Chairman of the Federal Assembly, and he was elected President of Slovakia in 1993 as head of the Movement for a Democratic Slovakia. However, he had a rivalry with Prime Minister Vladimir Meciar, and he was expelled from his own party in 1995. In 1998, he left office, failing to win reelection. He died of Parkinson's disease in 2016 at the age of 86.